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Response for when the far-right pick a fight by spewing ignorant divisive bollocks, then claim that they're being 'bullied', or 'cancelled', or 'oppressed' or 'silenced' when other people argue back or criticise them for said bollocks.

solitarelee

"You're not being bullied, you're picking a fight and then losing that fight" is VERY good and accurate

impuretale

This is my JAM.

chewbacca

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — s07e30

memeasaurus-promptus

Meeting of Rivals Sentence Starters

“Weren’t you dead?”

“My death was vastly exaggerated.”

“Oh great, it’s you.”

“I didn’t miss you for a second.”

“Who are you again?”

“I remember making you eat dirt the last time we met.”

“I see you still haven’t learned.”

“Can you just /stop/?”

“I may have lost last time, but I will not this time.”

“Don’t think you’ll win this time!”

“I hear you, I’m just not listening to you.”

“Do you ever have anything important to say?”

“Blah blah, shut up before I make you.”

“Wow, apparently you /could/ stoop even lower.”

“Why don’t you pick on someone my size?”

“Don’t get all morally superior with me.”

“You’d be nothing without me.”

“I see you haven’t changed a bit.”

“I hope you’ve been training in my absence- not that it’ll help you.”

“Back again for another beating I see.”

“You’re a glutton for punishment aren’t you?”

“Hope you packed some bandages, because you’ll be needing them.”

“I was happiest never seeing your face.”

“You think about me? I’m touched.”

“How many times do I have to tell you that you’re an idiot?”

“Shut up and fight me.”

“You better stay down.”

“Get down here, or are you a coward?”

“You’re nothing but all talk.”

“Oh, I’ll show you I’m more than just talk.”

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fleurdulys

The Irritating Gentleman - Berthold Woltze

1874

gonegrls

why does this communicate the universal mood we women experience so perfectly

foxy-voxy

This is doubly annoying because she’s clearly in mourning; look at her clothes. those are mourning clothes. The way she clutches her handkerchief. The wetness of her eyes. She’s not a lark to the seaside, she’s traveling to or from a funeral. And this dandy fuckboy can’t look beyond his own nose and have some fucking respect.

jeanjauthor

This is why I support artists. You can tell a story without any words at all. You don’t even need to title this piece “The Irritating Gentleman” and yet most 21st Century women will know exactly what this 19th Century woman endured on the day of that painting.

justarandomgirly

And look how she is dressed. Not a piece of skin exposed. So dont tell me its our miniskirts that makes men do this!

imagineherbrightskies

Sis is reaching for that hatpin hell yes stab him

aadyeah

he deserves that stab

whitepeopletwitter

politijohn

one-time-i-dreamt

tami-taylors-hair

The big discourse on twitter right now is ‘you can’t say Columbus was a racist monster because no one knew racism was bad in 1492,’ except Isabella I (yeah, that Isabella I) threw his ass in prison for being a racist monster. There are multiple contemporaneous accounts of Columbus in the Caribbean that are basically like “holy shit, this guy is a legit, Texas chainsaw massacre psychopath.” He was considered bad even then.

When there’s documentation that the queen who got the Spanish Inquisition rolling thought Columbus was bad, I feel like it means we can all feel good about establishing another holiday for mattress discounts in this country.

kereeachan

Yep. Contemporaneous accounts of him and De Soto often have the writer essentially going “what the FUCK are you doing, why are you like this.” People AT THE TIME knew it was fucked up just fine.

citizen-zero

His crew wanted to mutiny and kill the man and we are all worse off for the fact that they didn’t.

urcadelimabean

There are always people who know it’s wrong. For starters, everyone on the receiving end of racist and genocidal violence knew it was wrong. But no one seems to care about their viewpoint when determining whether or not white people understood racism.

eowyntheavenger

There are always people who know it’s wrong. For starters, everyone on the receiving end of racist and genocidal violence knew it was wrong.

tolkienillustrations

There’s something truly insidious about the idea that “back then, people didn’t know racism was bad,” as if racism is humanity’s natural state. It isn’t. Racism is learned and it can be unleared. Such arguments also, as has been pointed out above, erase the experiences of people of color who were on the receiving end of racist violence and who definitely knew it was wrong. And racism has not always existed, either: the myth of African inferiority was invented to attempt to justify White violence against Black people.

solitarelee

#Columbus was thrown in prison because the queen who killed thousands realized he was killing MILLIONS THROUGH TORTURE AND RAPE#when someone who started the inquisition decides you fucked you you damn well fucked up

millennial-review-deactivated20

number6bitch

What Would A Mediocre White Man Do? (new mantra to live by!)

sonatine

this is SO REAL both the specific case and the broad case in the specific case: if you actually met 100% of the requirements they couldn’t afford you I tell this to every woman I talk to job hunting about APPLY ANYWAY THE MEDIOCRE WHITE MEN ARE DOING IT (via @galwednesday)

eve-made-the-right-choice

“if you actually met 100% of the requirements they couldn’t afford you”

I really needed to hear this. I had never thought of it this way. This literally never occurred to me, I’ve just spent my whole adult life thinking I was underqualified for everything. Thinking I’m not good enough for anything because the “minimum requirements” are so high.

I need specifics. I wanna know what I can get away with. I wanna know what they really mean by “minimum.” I wanna know how much I’m actually worth.

hellanahmean

As someone who worked in hr, this is true.

True to the point that if someone was extremely unqualified, but because of timing we were desperate, we’d bend rules to get them hired. And the only people taking advantage of this were guys.

needshisbones

djsoliloquy

if you actually met 100% of the requirements they couldn’t afford you

this made so much click in my head. because this was literally it–spend half the time being unqualified for everything and just not applying. and the rest of the time being qualified and not getting hired. because ahahaha fuck you, you’re too expensive now/we’re too worried you’ll jump ship and leave us because of how qualified you are! guess we’ll just hire this shitty dude to do it !? ?

stagemanagerssaygo

I debated posting this here but WWAMWMD? He’d post it. #girlgogetyours

appolsaucy-deactivated20260202

It’s way more than “if you actually met 100% of the requirements they couldn’t afford you”

The reason they couldn’t afford you is that if you meet 100% of the requirements, you’re ready for the next position up.

Career strategy 101: The most valuable employees are always learning. Every company wants employees who won’t stagnate, i.e. sit in one role doing the same thing ever year and continue getting annual raises. A company wants to hire you for one thing at one salary, and then move you up through higher positions over the years, i.e. they keep getting new benefits for the additional money they’re spending on you.

A good company will offer you development opportunities, either within your role or in addition to it. So when the company interviews you, they want to see that you can learn what they need, and you want to see that they can teach you new skills. Companies know that the best applicants are interviewing them in return and that if they don’t offer development, they will lose those applicants to better jobs.

Companies structure positions this way intentionally and they assume you know it.

So not only should you apply to jobs you aren’t 100% qualified for, you can use 100% qualification as an indicator that you’re overqualified and should look for the next job up.

bryntwedge

This started funny but became really important to know.

guerrillatech

And then 57 other steel workers dont quit in solidarity with the shover

hundondestiny

and the entire factory staff doesn’t applaud in support of the shover as the shover gets charged

astrodidact

aenariasbookshelf

See that picture above? That’s a close up of my great grandmother’s immigration papers when she first came to the US back in the early 20th century. But my great grandma’s information isn’t the important part here. The important part is that line in the middle there about how they arrived in the country.

And how ‘stowaway’ is a legitimate, valid option to select.

So yeah. They absolutely just showed up, and that part of immigration history needs to be talked about a lot more.

drek-odradek-deactivated2022031

REMINDER THAT TRAVEL VISAS AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY WERE INVENTED IN THE 1930S TO KEEP JEWISH REFUGEES OUT OF COUNTRIES THAT DID NOT WANT AN ‘INFLUX’ OF THEM, THEREBY FACILITATING THEIR GENOCIDE :)))))

read What is A Refugee for more history. Educate yourselves.

brainless-moe-white-lotus

An activate charcoal AND grapefruit smoothie called "what will your meds do ;)"

the-killswitch-deactivated20200

Actually its a juice

queerforscience

Wait no this was a joke

kaijuno

you're on antidepressants and you drink this you meet the devil

fyeahnursingthings

All you ER-nurses: get ready.

mapsontheweb

How much $100 is worth in each state?

lolabean07

It's interesting that in states where the dollar has more value, wages are lower, less likely to have unions or job protections, and both poverty and poorer health outcomes are prevalent.

jedthewolfdog

so we moved into a new house over the weekend and while i think i’m going to like it a lot once we get everything put away and settled, we have the Most Cursed bathroom

first of all there’s a step leading into it but the door closes before it so you open it and surprise step. very easy to trip

it’s fucking carpeted. like. around the sink is not carpeted but the carpeting goes right up to and behind the toilet. what do you do if the toilet floods

there’s ... this. baby changing station i guess? weird counter

big window with no way of putting curtains on it

four places to hang towels even though there’s no shower in this bathroom

there’s also a hallway leading to this bathroom but it’s the only thing that the hallway leads to

in conclusion:

why

jedthewolfdog

why wants to see MURDER SHED

doesn’t seem too bad from the outside right? cute little yellow shed

SURPRISE

MURDER MURDER MURDER SHED

of course, lit by a single naked bulb

if i ever stop posting here it’s because the thing that always tries to open the door from the inside of the murder shed finally escaped and killed me

jedthewolfdog

this got a note and it reminded me so here’s a fun update on the house so far:

murder shed

the doors to the murder shed would be open every morning when i got up, no matter how early i got up, without fail. the doors are both latched and bolted. they would always open in the middle of the night. one day this just STOPPED happening and i have not been in there since. it hasn’t opened in like two weeks. we’ve had severe storms and sudden fluctuations in temperature. they have remained closed

cursed bathroom

the door has slats in it. like you can hear through the door and look through it if youre looking at the right angle

the toilet is not stable. like it leans if you move and jiggles. im worried one day its just going to tip over and spill all over the carpet

the faucet handle is broken. you can turn it on fine but it just comes off if you try to turn the water off. you have to jam it back on, hold the handle into the base, and force it down

the toilet has the slowest flush i’ve ever witnessed. every single time i think its either not going to flush or its going to back up. like flushing this toilet is a prolonged experience

misc

there are multiple entrances to every room but only one lightswitch in each and its never by the door it should be. my roommate’s light switch is like in the middle of the wall

i think my ceiling fan is a ghost fan? (rotom??) like no matter what speed you have it on, even if its moving very quickly, it produces no change in air current whatsoever. you can hear the blades whooshing but absolutely cannot feel any sort of breeze no matter where you’re standing in the room

the basement has a bathroom, with a completely non-enclosed shower (its just a showerhead on the wall in the corner) and theres no drain its just a six inch hole in the floor. like going into dirt. there’s a garden hose going down into the hole and i dont know what its for

there is a large dark stain in the middle of the carpet in one room (small person sized)

when we came to tour the house the only things in it were a broken dollhouse and several stacks of childrens books written in hebrew (there are only 5,000 jews in all of iowa (0.2% of the population) and i am one of those people)

i will add on as i discover more cursed things about my house

jedthewolfdog

so i finally worked up the chutzpah to go down and take pictures of the basement bathroom (thank you @iseedeadsneeeple for going down with me even though i walked in all the spider webs first)

i revoke the original post that said that was the most cursed bathroom. it is truly the basement bathroom that holds that title. Cursed indeed

starting you off with the easy pic because you need time to mentally prepare yourself

rest here, traveler. the journey ahead is treacherous

okay, i warned you

here’s the shower. just like. on the wall. no sort of enclosed space whatsoever

don’t worry about drainage you got this sick ass hole in the floor with the basement hose. you know, the basement hose, found in every standard basement?

the toilet, conveniently situated right next to the fuse box so you won’t be scared if the power goes out when you’re pooping!

but ALAS. what’s this?

oh yeah, it’s just that dark space under the stairs that’s right behind the toilet half wall. but don’t worry - if you’re concerned about someone watching you while you’re on the toilet, there’s some blinds you can pull down!

anyway can someone tell me WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS HOUSE